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A while back I wrote about the book Now Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham. My top 5 are Ideation, Empathy, Developer, Maximiser and Learner.
The definitions of each of these in the Strengthsfinder context is a bit deeper than the dictionary definition.
My coach took me through the SF definitions and we worked through how they […]

I have now been working at Forthview Primary School for 3 weeks and I am having a great time. I am on a very steep learning curve -that’s the point. I realise now that the nature of what is going on in a school means that you have to stop doing something and switch seamlessly […]

A regular reader asked me why I did not blog yesterday…
Well it was actually my 50th birthday and I had a funpacked full day - and did not sit in front of my PC at all.
But as she asked me I realised that I was now under pressure to write something today…and my mind was […]

I went to see Scotland play South Africa at rugby yesterday. South Africa won - but then they are one of the top 4 rugby nations in the world. I am taking consolation from the fact that they only scored 3 points in the second half.
Before the game - as is tradition the world over […]

When I was working with the BOOST programme in Scotland we used this as a reminder that you have a choice. The participants in the programme had been out of work for some time for a variety of reasons and were learning about themselves, adding new skills to their toolkits and developing new strategies for […]

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